Restructuring your novel – Phoebe Morgan

Write down a chapter summary for each of your chapters. This is particularly useful if the book contains a lot of characters or multiple plotlines. Just write a sentence or two after each chapter to sum it up, and if you're writing from several points of view, you could colour code each chapter so that at a glance you can see which points of view are getting the most airtime, and work out whether the POVs are equally spaced. When you have these little summaries, it will become a bit clearer as to which chapters could afford to either be cut, or moved to another part of the book (and still ensure the book makes sense!). You could try writing them on little cards or post-it notes too which you can then move around if you're more of a visual person.